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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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